I have this situation and hoping for some direction. Our company is a Windows 7 Pro x64 Office 2013 environment w/ roaming profiles.

Each user has different files saved in different locations (Desktop/My Documents/Pictures/Videos/Downloads and probably other locations they dont tell us about)

Each user (as many of you have experienced) enjoy saving their passwords in the browser and never want to remember them. Same folks enjoy never having to type a lot in the forms of the browser so they have the autofill forms for user names and passwords.

It gets better, despite the users encouraged to use Internet Explorer, they still use FireFox and Chrome, which in turn has their bookmarks/auto fill forms/passwords as well.

we are looking to be able to export all that information and data without copying their entire profile (which may have some corruption they haven't told us about and have just found ways around it just to get their work done) and import that onto a newly deployed Windows 10 machine so they have not only a nice clean slate, but all their data/passwords/bookmarks, etc.

So the question is, are there any products out there that can do this?

I understand there have been issues with WET and USMT. Windows is endorsing a product called PCMover from Laplink, but they are asking for way too much money and we are barely 200 users. Of course, if there is a powershell script that can do all of this would be even better.

Hi. Updating from WIN 7 to win 10 will not remove any files/software/profiles. I did the updates couple of weeks ago. For the saved passwords on Chrome, I use chrome user login and synchronization. Good luck.

Hi. Updating from WIN 7 to win 10 will not remove any files/software/profiles. I did the updates couple of weeks ago. For the saved passwords on Chrome, I use chrome user login and synchronization. Good luck.

The update isnt taking place on the same PC. User is on windows 7 PC. We have a windows 10 Image that we deploy onto a newer PC.

Also, we have locked down browser Synch on both Chrome and Firefox as part of our security policy

Hi. Updating from WIN 7 to win 10 will not remove any files/software/profiles. I did the updates couple of weeks ago. For the saved passwords on Chrome, I use chrome user login and synchronization. Good luck.

The update isnt taking place on the same PC. User is on windows 7 PC. We have a windows 10 Image that we deploy onto a newer PC.

Also, we have locked down browser Synch on both Chrome and Firefox as part of our security policy

Och I see. So that will not work for you. I had just 8 PCs to upgrade so I didnt think too much and did it one by one.

I used to like WET but unfortunately it's not available to use with Windows 10 as far as I know. When we transferred users to Win10 we used it as a big tidy up. We asked all users to move any documents saved locally to either their network drive or OneDrive. Browser favourites can be copied but I just asked people to make their own list of any important (it's not for IT to sort out their social media and shopping tabs). Usually with users I will copy their desktop to their network drive so I can copy it back to their new computer.

As an aside, don't you have file servers available to save data too?From a backup and data security point of view, this would be the best opion for file saves, no?

We used the 7->10 transition as an opportunity to nag users to save data off onto network shares with an "anything that gets left behind gets wiped on upgrade day" type ultimatum. Secretly we've also made efforts to temporarily store copies of user's pre-upgrade local files as a short-term backup and thus far we've had at least one "Oh yes just wipe my machine I've got backups of everything." followed by "Oh no wait I didn't have backups of anything.".

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I have been using this product
USMTGUI
. Been working well as I migrate users to Windows 10 from various older Windows installs. The offline
USMTGUI Offline is very handy for XP or a crashed system. Pricing is good with discounts for education. I strongly recommend them this has worked out super well for me in a small low resource K-12 environment.

Chrome doesn't allow exporting without using their sync feature so it's not nearly as simple as copying some files.

I used PCMover at a previous job, but they were a huge multinational and I wasn't involved with that part so wasn't aware of cost. The company also hired an outside contractor to handle the process; PCMover was not fast from what I remember, but we were only refreshing about 30 machines so it only took a few days.

We create backups of the local desktop, documents, downloads and pictures. We also backup and later restore the Chrome favorites, but nothing more. using this we avoid the browser saved password that we also told them not to save. this way they will loose them as part of the migration password.

Still waiting for somebody to ask me about their saved passwords..........so I can tell them "didn't I told you not to"

Recently just done this, so I feel your pain! WET isn't available, but I've used Easeus to copy profiles over. In short I had to:

1) Sent out emails to the teams I was migrating to show how to copy their Favorites into a folder onto the desktop.

2) Reminded them per the Company Policy Passwords were not to be saved on the Desktops and wouldnt be copied over

3) Included a detailed guide on how to save anything on their machines to their network folders. Work related only.

4) Moving forward keep either IE or Chrome on the machines, explain its down to standardise the department. Pull admin rights for anyone else except your IT to prevent them from installing (I'm assuming your enforcing a GPO to prevent EU's from doing this) and point out this is the standard moving forward

5) Copy their profile plus that folder, get them to log into the new machine and copy over the data. Store the copied data seperate and get rid after 30days.

We at concordantonetech use ROBOFORM tool for auto saving forms and passwords so that when an issue of any kind of migration genrates our profiles and other stuffs are kept safely. This helps employees to migrate smoothly on any new devices and can work properly.